Definition of Hybodonts. Meaning of Hybodonts. Synonyms of Hybodonts

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Definition of Hybodonts

Hybodont
Hybodont Hyb"o*dont, a. [Gr. ? hump + ?, ?, a tooth.] (Paleon.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.

Meaning of Hybodonts from wikipedia

- compressed teeth. Hybodonts were first described in the nineteenth century based on isolated fossil teeth (Ag****iz, 1837). Hybodonts were first separated...
- relatives). Important extinct groups of elasmobranchs sensu lato include the hybodonts (Order Hybodontiformes), xenacanths (order Xenacanthformes) and Ctenacanthiformes...
- thought to have been produced by some extinct chondricthyan groups, such as hybodonts and xenacanths. Egg cases are made of collagen protein strands, and are...
- in freshwater. Some prehistoric sharks (in a broad sense), including hybodonts and xenacanths, are also thought to have inhabited freshwater environments...
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) with a shark-like morphology, such as hybodonts. Shark-like chondrichthyans such as Cladoselache and Doliodus first appeared...
- late Middle to Late Jur****ic. During the Early Jur****ic, the shark-like hybodonts, which represented the dominant group of chondrichthyans during the preceding...
- known for its unusual spiral shaped spiral tooth whorl in the lower jaw. Hybodonts, a group of shark-like chondrichthyans, were widespread and abundant members...
- mainly known from the dental plates, abundant in the fossils record. Hybodonts, a group of shark-like cartilaginous fish, were dominant in both freshwater...
- Hybodonts of the Bladen Formation Genus Species Location Notes Images Lonchidion L. babulskii Elizabethtown, NC A lonchidiid. Meristodonoides M. novojerseyensis...
- a morphogenus of eggs cases, widely thought to have been produced by hybodonts, with a predominant occurrence in ancient freshwater environments. They...